NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Nov 2015
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1201 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
1024
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
38.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GM206
GPU Variant
GA106-300-A1
GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
8,747
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,097
-
3DMark Speed Way
2,181
-
Battlefield 5 1080p
142
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
44
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Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
30
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
80
-
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
36
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
116
-
Battlefield 5 2160p
55
-
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
56
-
Battlefield 5 1440p
101
-
GTA 5 2160p
50
-
GTA 5 1440p
82
-
GTA 5 1080p
133
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